The Big Picture: Schlocktober 2012: Attack of the Super Monsters

[AvsJoe]

Me: SOLD!
My Brain: But this movie will most likely-
Me: I SAID FUCKING SOLD!

 

[MatParker116]

So the incestuous VR Troopers do what again?

 

[Dascylus]

Oh my dear Bob, you think the "Gemini/incest" stuff is bad in this movie? Then you have never seen Aquarion.

Couldn't watch it embedded but found it easy enough direct on youtube... My housemate thought I was watching hentai.

 

[Simalacrum]

I wish living in Japan represented this kind of absolute insanity on a day-to-day basis T.T

(hint: it doesn't. Daily life in Japan is actually significantly more sensible in many ways than the West in my experience. XD)

 

[Mr Smith]

I saw something very similar to this when I was young. Same general premise and production style, but different characters and vehicles. And the dinosaurs didn't talk. Just wish I could remember what it was called.

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

Dear...

*long overdramatic pause*

...God.

Okay...usually when I see something in this vein, I usually talk about wanting whatever drugs they are on. This time...I think we should find out what drugs are involved and get rid of all supplies of it.

I thought the same thing myself and speaking of Dinosaurs, next year sentai series is going to be Dinosaur themed(That's the 3rd dinosaur themed sentai for those keeping score) but with a twist. The dinosaurs are going to hologram pets that the heros partner with leading to alot speculation that the series is a tribute series to Digimon since 2013 is the 15th anniversary.
On top of which, the series is being rumored to being writen by Yoshio Urasawa who not only wrote the "japanese" 1st season for digimon, but also worked on Carranger and Abaranger.

I also heard there was going to be pirate based theme Rangers for one season, and their shtick is that they can use any of the powers of ANY of the past sentai teams and bond them to their own. Which does beg the question as to what will happen when these pirate Rangers draw upon the Ninja Storm powers...

 

[Darth_Payn]

Japanese producer on this movie "Uh, guys, do you think this stuff is too ... us?" Agreed. My brain is actively trying to delete the audio-visual data I have accidentally input from this latest entry of the Schloktober series. If some other stuff goes with it, oh well.

captcha:COURTYARD WEEKEND DEALS
Well, as long as it doesn't include movies that make no sense, I'm in.

 

[Knight Templar]

I was looking at this and thinking "this reminds me of something". After a little bit I finally caught on, it looks like Diatron 5 (Or is it space thunder kids? Doesn't matter I guess) which I saw on Anime Abandon.
That's a stamp of approval.

Oh my dear Bob, you think the "Gemini/incest" stuff is bad in this movie? Then you have never seen Aquarion. Brother and little sister are pilots of huge mechs, and the mechs become more powerful when they "merge" with each other and become a bigger robot Power Rangers style. Big brother is known as the best pilot in the land (of course) and little sister is sort of second-best, but she gets insanely jealous of anybody else who wants to "merge" with her brother. She goes on and on about how she wants to be the first to "merge" with him.

And to drive it all home, when they do merge it's apparently a very...stimulating experience, and every time the people merge in the show they moan in ecstasy and shout "So good!" And IIRC their clothes disappear for a moment while in transition. Yeah...

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What's the phrase to respond to things like that?
Oh Japan?

Seriously however is this subject less taboo in Japan, or do they really not get the implications of what they are showing?

 

[Cabamacadaf]

I saw some Godzilla movies in a store when I was a kid. I assumed that was a dream for a long time until I realized they were actually real movies.

 

[Endocrom]

Never heard of it Bob, although I probably would have LOVED it back in the day.

Was that Dan "Krusty/Homer" Castellaneta saying "I Obey!"? and the evil t-rex sounded familar too.

Research Edit: Well, IMDB's cast list seems incomplete, can't say I'm suprised considering the obscure factor.

 

[Grumpy Ginger]

What i want to know is who the hell gave the go ahead for the whole concept. I would have always imagined Japanese TV execs as fairly straight laced but they must have been smoking something so amazing on that day.....I want some

 

[The Random One]

At 3:03 you can see the monster just attacked the clone factory.

 

[PunkRex]

*Studying Palaeontologist*
I aint even mad Japan, I generally expect no less.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Oh man, that's a drinking game waiting to happen. You'd have to be have drunk to start it, and would have to be in a really good mood, but still. And it would rawk.

 

[John the Gamer]

You just have to wonder why they didn't just do it all anime and save the time and effort of making dinosaur puppets/costumes or whatever.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

That would be telling...

**blinks**

A Prisoner reference? Why, Movie Bob, after your "stuff Bob doesn't know" episode, I thought you weren't into old British sci-fi!

So... any chance of a Prisoner themed episode someday? ^^

... unless, of course, I'm reading FAR too much into this and you haven't seen the Prisoner and you just happened to use a phrase from the opening credits...

 

[roostuf]

even by japanese 80s-90s standerds thats weird...

 

[theultimateend]

*Studying Palaeontologist*
I aint even mad Japan, I generally expect no less.

Makes more sense than what some of the college kids I met thought actually happened.